People’s party expected to repeat 2018 defeat of Socialists – but failure to gain absolute majority could lead to deal with far right
People in Andalucía have gone to the polls in an early regional election that the incumbent conservative People’s party is expected to win comfortably, in what would be a blow to Spain’s Socialist prime minister,More than 6 million people are eligible to vote in Spain’s most populous region, where temperatures were expected to cool slightly after a week of extreme heat that officials feared would lower turnout.
The party has governed the southern region known for its white-walled villages and Costa del Sol beach resorts since 2018 in a coalition with the smaller centre-right party Ciudadanos. “All social advances that have taken place in Andalucía and in Spain were initiated by the Socialists, never by the right,” Sánchez told a final campaign rally on Friday in Seville, the region’s capital.
The head of the PP in Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, has urged voters to deliver him a “strong” government that is not “weighed down” by Vox. Antonio Barroso, an analyst at the political consultancy Teneo, said losing in Andalucía would be a “severe blow” for the Socialists and would mean “Sánchez might face an uphill battle to get re-elected” next year.
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